Doctor says condition of 5-year-old Indian girl who was raped and tortured has improved

Indian women activists of India's main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party jostle with Indian police women outside ruling United Progressive Alliance chairperson Sonia Gandhi’s residence during a protest against the rape of a 5-year-old girl in New Delhi, India, Sunday, April 21, 2013. The girl was raped and tortured by a man who held her in a locked room in India's capital for two days. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)
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Indian women activists of India main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party remove police barricade outside ruling United Progressive Alliance chairperson Sonia Gandhi’s residence during a protest against the rape of a 5-year-old girl in New Delhi, India, Sunday, April 21, 2013. The girl was raped and tortured by a man who held her in a locked room in India's capital for two days. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)
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An Indian women activist of India main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party shouts slogans outside ruling United Progressive Alliance chairperson Sonia Gandhi’s residence during a protest against the rape of a 5-year-old girl in New Delhi, India, Sunday, April 21, 2013. The girl was raped and tortured by a man who held her in a locked room in India's capital for two days. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)
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NEW DELHI – A doctor says the condition of a 5-year-old girl who was allegedly kidnapped, raped and tortured by a man and then left alone in a locked room in India's capital for more than two days has improved.

D. K. Sharma said Sunday the girl was responding well to treatment and that her condition was stable.

Police say the girl went missing April 15 and was found two days later by neighbors who heard her crying in a room in the same New Delhi building where she lives with her family.

A 24-year-old man has been arrested in connection with the incident.

For the second consecutive day, hundreds of people protested Sunday outside police headquarters, angry over allegations that police had ignored complaints by the girl's parents that she was missing.